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Mar 2, 2022 · Tests confirmed Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin, a chemical found in agent orange, according to The New York Times. Doctors said his blood dioxin level was "more than 1,000 times" normal...
Dec 11, 2004 · BERLIN — The mystery illness that has left Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s formerly handsome face scarred and pitted is the result of dioxin poisoning, his Austrian doctors...
He suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning, but survived. The runoff election in November 2004, won by Yanukovych, was marred by widespread accusations of election fraud, leading to the Orange Revolution and an order by the Ukrainian Supreme Court to repeat the vote. Yushchenko won the revote 52% to 44%.
Sep 18, 2006 · Yushchenko, the pro-Western presidential candidate facing off against the Kremlin's preferred nominee, Viktor Yanukovych, became violently ill, suffering severe abdominal pain and facial...
Dec 12, 2004 · LONDON, Dec. 11 - Tests done at a hospital in Vienna confirmed that Viktor A. Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition candidate, had been poisoned with dioxin, doctors there said Saturday,...
Feb 17, 2010 · No politician suffered a more humiliating rejection than the former leader of that revolution and the current sitting president, Viktor Yushchenko — the pockmarked hero of the revolution who...
Dec 11, 2004 · Sat 11 Dec 2004 11.34 EST. Dioxin poisoning caused the mysterious illness of Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, doctors said today, adding it could have...
